"Trauma - The Neglected disease of Modern Developing Nations"
All Trauma Data from India Primarily emanates out of Road Traffic Injury estimates
- Road-traffic accidents are increasing at annual rate of 3%.
- In 1997, 10.1% of all deaths in India were due to accidents and injuries.
- A vehicular accident is reported every 2 minutes and a death every 8 minutes on Indian roads.
- During 1998
- nearly 80,000 lives were lost and
- 330,000 people were injured
- 78% were men in age group of 20-44 years, causing significant impact on productivity
- A trauma-related death occurs in India every 1.9 minutes.
- The majority of fatal road-traffic accident victims are pedestrians, two wheeler riders and bicyclists.
Trauma and Injury is a major blow to our economy
- Mortality in serious (ISS > 16) injuries 6X worse in a developing country such as India compared to a developed country
- 90% of all Road Traffic Deaths – Middle and Low Income Countries like India.
- In addition to excess mortality, tremendous burden of disability in developing nations.
India Loses approx 2-2.5% of its GDP to only Road Traffic Injuries
- All Trauma is not Road Traffic Injuries
- 22.8% of all Trauma is Transport related Injuries
- Majority 77.2% is other trauma like:
- Falls (pediatric age group).
- Agricultural related trauma.
- Fire Arms, Intentional self harm.
- Assault, Fall of objects.
- Natural Disasters
- Terrorist Attacks
- Possibility of "NBC" events
